FESTIVAL Bloomsday Montréal – June 12-16, 2018
Walking tours, films, music, talks and conversations that unpack the ever-popular novels of James Joyce and explore the rich, storied culture of the Irish in Montréal.
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2018 Performers, Storytellers, Authors and Scholars
Reading and storytelling performances, panel discussions, walking tours, live music, food, theatre and much more.
Take a look at the 2018 program. Registration opens May 1.
Festival Bloomsday Montréal Newsletter
Hot Whiskey
Hot whiskey is a wonderful drink, and perfect for Canadian winters. Recipe from A Little Irish Cookbook, by John Murphy. Illustrated by Karen Bailey.
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The Parthenon of (Forbidden) Books
As part of the art fair Documenta 14 held in Kassel, Germany the Argentinian artist Marta Minujín had made to be built in Kassel’s Friedrichsplatz a 1:1 scale version of the Athenian Parthenon. The books chosen were titles which at some time or place had been suppressed or censored. It was the Parthenon of (Forbidden) Books.
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Samuel Beckett’s Wartime Years: A Review of Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree
Jo Baker’s A Country Road, A Tree (2016) is an exciting and moving novel detailing Samuel Beckett’s experiences in occupied France during World War Two. Though it is a fictionalized account, Baker did extensive research before writing the book, and the final product is a strange and beautiful mixture of historical events and imagined or inferred encounters.
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Grosse Île the Musical
This production has gone through 3 iterations that began with a performance in the Champlain College (St. Lawrence Campus) cafeteria about 4 years ago. It had a 3-day run – mostly in the form of a play – and then in March 2016 was presented twice at the Palais Montcalm in Quebec.
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Irish Memorial Park Update
On November 29, 2017 over thirty people representing various sectors of the Irish community met under the auspices of Dr. Michael Kenneally to hear an update on the discussions to create a memorial park to commemorate the 6,000 victims of the typhus epidemic among those fleeing the famine in Ireland in 1847.
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Yes! Believe me: Ulysses – from 933 pages to two hours at the Abbey Theatre!
I met my sister in Dublin. We were two Kelley girls getting together in the land of our ancestors for four days of Joyce—my aim—she didn’t know more than the name and my interest. But I never expected to find that the stage version of Ulysses would be on at the Abbey Theatre! The Abbey Theatre about which I had read so much!
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With Love From Dublin: Bloomsday Montréal Greeting
In 2016 Montreal’s Mayor Coderre declared Montreal and Ireland as ‘twin cities’. In this spirit of fellowship the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Dublin City Council, have gifted us at Festival Bloomsday Montréal 2017 with this lovely video greeting.
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